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A good evening and welcome to the strand bookstore. I am and nancy the owner. Force in history the strand was founded in 1927 by my grandfather and it was founded in an area known as book row that ran along Fourth Avenue from after place to union the square and at its height in houston 488 bookstores and ran from about the 1880s until about 1960 and in the 90 years since then all of the stores have shuttered leaving strand to be passed down by my father fred and now to me and will hopefully be k...

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One but if not incredibly compelling, a very lively and engaging had a difficult time putting down. Would you please encapsulate the life of your grandfather briefly . Because he seems to have compressed four four owe five s into one lifetime. Guest he did pick in fact, to book a memoir called my several lives. The only problem with it, it was, the New York Times declared he was a great man and he it was a dull book turkey didnt me secrets. My grandfather had an extraordinary career because he s...

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Below sunday morning. It will be the coldest temperature there since 19 z2l2xz z16fz y2l2xy y16fy is the cbs overnight news. About five miles south of here on wall street, the stock market broke a record. The dow soared 152 points to close above 25,000 for the first time ever. Just five weeks ago, the dow hit 24,000, making this the fastest thousandpoint rise in the history of the blue chip index. Since President Trump was elected, the dow is up nearly 37 . Jill schlesinger is our Senior Busines...

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[inaudible conversations] containing hello. I am to be dichter, chair of the board of the foundation. Welcome to another wonderful nights at the free library of philadelphia. Our amazing, magnificent star lineup. Tonight we have some awesome friends and officers and if you see the lights here we are on cspan. You dont have to run home to watch your self because it will be on the book talk show and, you know, that signals again that these three stars warrant this kind of attention and we are very...

We have four scholars here today well placed to pick up these themes from, intriguingly, different kinds of angles and backgrounds. Let me go ahead and introduce them. To my left is henry cole, an assistant professor at yale where he holds appointments in the medical school and History Department. He is also on the faculty of cognitive science. He is working on what will be a terrific book on the history of mind and Brain Science in the late 19th century currently titled other mines other minds....

At in the History Department vanderbilt university. We are here today to talk about a number of things. Im sure that more will come out in the discussions. The intellectual work of inence, the place of science intellectual history and the relations between science and intellectual history. Many other threads as well. We have four scholars here today well placed to pick up these themes from, intriguingly, different kinds of angles and backgrounds. Let me go ahead and introduce them. To my left is...